Organ Recital Jan. 23

Stoltzfus is minister of music and organist atPlymouth Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn Heights, New YorkCity, where he directs three choirs and oversees theactivities of the music department. He is also active as acomposer, having written several commissioned anthems andseveral dozen hymn accompaniment/descant arrangements.

From 1993 to 1995, he was assistant to Dr. GerreHancock at Saint Thomas church, Fifth Avenue, New York. Hepreviously served as assistant organist at Trinity Church onthe Green in New Haven, and at St. Paul's Cathedral inDetroit.

Stoltzfus earned the master of music degree fromthe Yale University School of Music, and the bachelor ofmusic degree from the University of Michigan. He alsostudied at the 1990 International Summer Organ Academy inParis, France.

His principal teachers have been David Bartlett,Robert Glasgow, Gerre Hancock, Charles Krigbaum, WaldenMoore, Thomas Murray and Carl E. Schroeder. He has beenactive on the executive boards of the New York City andBrooklyn chapters of the American Guild of Organists.

Stoltzfus maintains a regular recital andaccompanying schedule, which has included performances fornational conventions of the Organ Historical Society and theAssociation of Anglican Musicians, and has performed widelyalong the East Coast.

He has performed at The Alexandra Palace inLondon, England, as part of a series of recitals to raiserestoration funds for the instrument there, and has playedfor services at Ely Cathedral, Southwell Minster, and BurySt. Edmunds Cathedral as part of the 1993 tour of theTrinity, New Haven Boys Choir. He has also played manyother instruments in England, Poland and France, in informalsituations or as part of organ study tours.

The program on January 23 will open with the"Praeludium in G minor" by Dieterich Buxtehude, and willcontinue with the "Allegro" from the "Sonata No. 3 in FMajor" by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Two works by J.S.Bach, "Hilf Gott, das mirs gelinge" (BWV 624) and "Liebsterjesu, wir sind hier" (BWV 731) will follow, as will the"Ronde Francaise" by Leon Boellmann. The first portion ofthe program will conclude the "Adagio" from "Symphony No. 5"and "Variations" from "Symphony No. 8," both by Charles-Marie Widor.

Following an intermission, Stoltzfus will performLouis Vierne's "Final" from "Symphony No. 1" and "Pastorale"from "24 Pieces in Free Style." The program will continuewith "Meditation" on "Picardy" by Leo Sowerby, and a "GospelPrelude" on "What a friend we have in Jesus" by WilliamBolcom. The program will conclude with three preludes byGeorge Gershwin.

The recital was made possible through the generoussupport of the college's Tom Donia Memorial Organ Fund. Thefund was created in 1990 by family and friends of Tom Donia,a 1971 Hope graduate who died in 1990. The director ofcommunications for the American Red Cross, Donia had a life-long interest in music.

Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located on the cornerof 12th Street and College Avenue on the campus of HopeCollege.